Updated permits have been filed for the affordable senior housing proposal at 375 Laguna Honda Boulevard in San Francisco’s Twin Peaks neighborhood. The project aims to add 159 rental units to a vacant lot on the Laguna Honda Hospital campus. Mercy Housing is responsible for the application.
375 Laguna Honda Boulevard, illustration by Herman Coliver Locus Architecture
375 Laguna Honda Boulevard facade elevation, illustration by Herman Coliver Locus Architecture
The 67-foot-tall structure is expected to yield approximately 99,000 square feet of housing, 9,380 square feet for the children’s daycare and senior centers, 1,230 square feet for residential service offices, 720 square feet for medical facilities, and 9,350 square feet for the ground-floor garage. The complex will include 158 one-bedroom residential units and a two-bedroom manager’s residence. Parking will be included for 31 cars and 16 bicycles.
Herman Coliver Locus Architecture is responsible for the design. Illustrations show the podium-style apartment complex articulated with a mix of facade carve-outs and a varied color palette. The exterior will be wrapped in fiber-cement lap siding, plaster, and cast-in-place concrete.
375 Laguna Honda Boulevard site map, illustration by Herman Coliver Locus Architecture
Laguna Honda Hospital Senior Housing site, image via Google Satellite
The hilltop property is located within the Laguna Honda Hospital campus, close to the Forest Hill light-rail station.
Design Studios Gonzalo Castro is overseeing the construction management. Construction is estimated to cost around $62.5 million, a figure not inclusive of all development costs. The timeline has not been shared.
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The usual: great project, but it looks absolutely butt ugly
Great! Build it!
Thankfully we can agree on this one, it’s great news that this is moving forward 🙂
WHY do “architects” feel the need to put the ugliest colors on the building.
this would be totally unoffensive if it was just white, gray, or black.
And also dull as dishwater.
Uggh, so tired of “Millennial Battleship Gray” and “Millennial Farmhouse White.” Dull and depressing. Nothing wrong with color. I say bring back Avocado Green and Burnt Orange. Yes, I am a child of the 70s and 80s.
well your generation will enjoy these senior citizen apartments, i guess.
Gen X will never retire. How can we? We gotta pay for the Boomers.
I like the colors. I wish they’d build 14 floors on half the site & preserve the rest for later.
This project does NOT include a first-floor parking garage, and never has. Where’ did you get that misinformation?
I’d rather have a bland, simple building like the ones in Japan than these ugly modernist architectural styles.
future generations will regard these type of buildings as the type that took away the unique beauty San Francisco used to have with its Edwardians, Victorians, etc. These new buildings have zero character, all look the same, and are just like every other city in the USA. The designers put zero effort into them and crank them out like a conveyor belt. Sure we get more residential, but, in my opinion, San Francisco loses part of its soul with each one built. We can create better. Use a little more imagination and a little less AI.